Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — unusualmonkey

unusualmonkey

HN member
Joined
Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC
HN karma
264
Public activity
158 items

About unusualmonkey

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #48789245

    [flagged]

  2. comment
    Comment #48788372

    Starlink is useful, but people often confuse coverage with capacity density. The rough hierarchy is: fixed fiber/cable > Wi-Fi > cellular > LEO satellite > traditional GEO satellit…

  3. comment
    Comment #48445835

    I agree that there may be a lot of variation between models that leads to different use cases, at least today. But I’m not sure the car analogy works. An X5 is not simply “inferior…

  4. comment
    Comment #48333321

    Sorry that's no realistic. People start businesses, including law firms, all the time with little to no capital. Assuming token costs will be prohibitive assumes: A) tokens will be…

  5. comment
    Comment #46343150

    > a brain can innovate, and as of this moment, an LLM cannot because it relies on previously available information. Source needed RE brain. Define innovate, in a way that a LLM can…

  6. comment
    Comment #46239914

    Just wait until after launch. You get a refined experience and often much lower prices.

  7. comment
    Comment #45863064

    I pointed out the claim is both irrelevant and factually wrong. That should be sufficient rebuttal.

  8. comment
    Comment #45853948

    Humans are not deterministic. Ironically AI models are iirc. Come up with a real argument.

  9. comment
    Comment #43675187

    > Not spending all the wealth you before you die would be irrational if your children won't inherit it. Sure, but that's only one small aspect of the economy. Maybe younger generat…

  10. comment
    Comment #43604222

    You've not established that your suggestions are core principles of modern economics or derived from them. For example, you are asserting there would be 'no reason to own property …

  11. comment
    Comment #43563292

    If no sources exist, then you must accept making claims such as this would 'lower savings rates' are simply not backed up. Maybe it will... maybe it won't. So what if there is no r…

  12. comment
    Comment #43551262

    I'd need a source to back up those claims, as you note it's not trivial to understand how economy would react. I also don't see why buying a house would be much riskier? If you buy…

  13. comment
    Comment #43550227

    Why is spending everything before you die a perverse incentive?

  14. comment
    Comment #42641218

    Except that if rendering was magically free... why not just pathtrace everything? DLSS might not be as good as pure unlimited pathtracing, but for a given budget it might be better…

  15. comment
    Comment #42629079

    > Rasterizing results in better graphics quality than DLSS if compute is not a limiting factor. Sure, but compute is a limiting factor.

  16. comment
    Comment #42617651

    In part because it's an odd compromise. With the exception of LLM's which are a decent development... there wasn't a lot of need to high memory, but moderate GPU compute parts. You…

  17. comment
    Comment #42614823

    Remember that AMD has been making x86 SoC's with unified memory for quite some time.

  18. comment
    Comment #41922261

    Sure, but the same likely applies to Oil as well right? Fossil Fuels don't magically extract and refine themselves. What analysis do you point to that suggests fossil fuels have a …

  19. comment
    Comment #41921524

    > One oil well can produce an amount of free energy (24/7) that a 100 acre wind farm can only produce sporadically, assuming the well is a reasonably high volume producer. It depen…

  20. comment
    Comment #41919193

    > The energy density of fossil fuels means that those side-effects would be worse with other sources of energy. Can you expand on this? How does the density of fossil fuel make the…

  21. comment
    Comment #41866829

    Lol, adding a hue is usually a crutch for a too small screen with lifted blacks... which doesn't paint the pro in a very positive light! Ironically by adding a gue to a nomral scre…

  22. comment
    Comment #41864495

    If you're implementing you're idea's... who is marketing them? Who is handling customer support? What about sales, legal, finance, hr etc? Writing code is not building a business.

  23. comment
    Comment #41864485

    You can do the same thing with any screen by holding it the appropriate distance. Keep in mind that all that unwatchable area is pixels that aren't being used to improve the movie …

  24. comment
    Comment #41861740

    "The movies that play in virtual screens are native to the films’ aspect ratios, which can vary movie to movie, eliminating the black bars of “letterboxing” and “pillarboxing” you …

  25. comment
    Comment #41861578

    So the first business has no competition... but also no defensibility? The second business should be able to be much bigger AND easier, but you aren't focussing all your efforts on…